Hey all, MySQL supports a special form of comments, like /*!50132 foo()*/ which means that it's a comment for versions before 5.1.32, and executes foo() for versions 5.1.32 and above.
The scheme is exactly 5 digits directly after the /*! In Drizzle, we've just decided on version numbers of the form 2009.03.911, which are YYYY.MM.REVNO. I'm pretty sure revno is going to top 1000 reasonably soon, and it's not inconceivable that it tops 10000 at some point. To support this in the code, I changed it from being 5 digits directly after the /*!, to being 5 or more digits, ending with a non-digit. This means that: select 1 + /*!500021*/; will be a syntax error rather 2, and would have to be written: select 1 + /*!50002 1*/; And that now you can do: select 1 + /*!200804900 1*/; Anybody think this change will be a big problem? Monty _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~drizzle-discuss Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~drizzle-discuss More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
